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"It was just a strange thing that happened," Ocean View Police Chief Kenneth McLaughlin told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The young carpenter died about at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A air nail-gun accident in Mississippi had a happier outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. Stone County, Miss., contractor Duncan Hatten was crouching down to nail a 2x4 block onto a column when he lost his balance and nailers fell against about the nail gun, which fired two quick nails into his heart. "I just figured I was gonna die," Hatten told local TV station WLOX. "I told air my coworker to tell my family that nailers I loved them." But the two framing spikes had narrowly missed major blood vessels, and surgeons were able to remove about the nails from Hatten''s heart in a two-hour air operation. Haslob has no hard feelings, he told the Register: "I don''t think he meant to do it." But Dupont was fired after the incident, and police have reportedly charged him with nailers reckless endangerment. With the right equipment, you can work like a pro, and make lots of noise, dust and progress.Last week I noticed my neighbor breaking up his sidewalk with a sledgehammer. about I strolled over to see how it was air going. nailers He had only been at it for an about hour but was already sore, exhausted air and nailers and about and air and thinking about hiring a pro to finish the job with a jackhammer. "You don''t need a pro," I told him. "All you need is a jackhammer." The smallest, brad nailers which shoot brads up to 1-1/4 in. long, often sell for well under $100. You might nailers and about be better off buying one.Roofing nailerCOST: $50 per day air with compressorBENEFITS: Easy as pulling nailers a trigger and faster than a platoon of hammer-swingers.Driving thousands of roofing nails about with a hammer is like scrubbing the floor at Grand Central Station with a toothbrush. Don''t put asphalt shingles on anything bigger than a doghouse without a roofing nailer. For wood shingles, speed air up the job with a roofing stapler nailers.
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